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Seduce [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. SEDU'CE , v . t . [Latin seduco ; se , from, and duco , to lead.]

2. To draw aside or entice from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner, by flattery,

3. promises, bribes or otherwise; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt; to deprave.

4. Me the gold of France did not seduce . Shak .

5. In the latter times, some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits.

6. Tim. 4.

7. To entice to a surrender of chastity. He that can seduce a female is base enough to betray her.

Seduce [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty in any manner; to entice to evil; to lead astray; to tempt and lead to iniquity; to corrupt.

2. Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation.

Seduced [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Seducement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. .

2. The act of seducing; seduction.

3. The means employed to seduce; the arts of flattery, falsehood and deception.

Seducement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of seducing.

2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting.

Seducer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. .

2. One that seduces; one that by temptation or arts, entices another to depart from the path of rectitude and duty; pre-eminently, one that by flattery, promises or falsehood, persuades a female to surrender her chastity. The seducer of a female is little less criminal than the murderer.

3. That which leads astray; that which entices to evil.

4. He whose firm faith no reason could remove,

5. Will mest before that soft seducer , love. Dryden .

Seducer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions.

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9 KJV and 3 BSB verses contain “Seduce”

Exodus 22:16

And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

If a man seduces a virgin who is not pledged in marriage and sleeps with her, he must pay the full dowry for her to be his wife.

Numbers 25:18

For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.

For they assailed you deceitfully when they seduced you in the matter of Peor and their sister Cozbi, the daughter of the Midianite leader, the woman who was killed on the day the plague came because of Peor.”

2 Kings 21:9

But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

But the people did not listen and Manasseh led them astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations that the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.

Proverbs 12:26

The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

A righteous man is cautious in friendship, but the ways of the wicked lead them astray.

Isaiah 19:13

The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof.

The princes of Zoan have become fools; the princes of Memphis are deceived. The cornerstones of her tribes have led Egypt astray.

Ezekiel 13:10

Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter:

Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,

Mark 13:22

For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform signs and wonders that would deceive even the elect, if that were possible.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.

while evil men and imposters go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

2 Peter 2:14

Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

Their eyes are full of adultery; their desire for sin is never satisfied; they seduce the unstable. They are accursed children with hearts trained in greed.

1 John 2:26

These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.

I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

Revelation 2:20

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

But I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads My servants to be sexually immoral and to eat food sacrificed to idols.

Tobit 5:13

Then Tobit said, Thou art welcome, brother; be not now angry with me, because I have enquired to know thy tribe and thy family; for thou art my brother, of an honest and good stock: for I know Ananias and Jonathas, sons of that great Samaias, as we went together to Jerusalem to worship, and offered the firstborn, and the tenths of the fruits; and they were not seduced with the error of our brethren: my brother, thou art of a good stock.